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Kapundaite & Leucophosphite

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Kapundaite & Leucophosphite

Type Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Toms Phosphate Quarry, Kapunda, South Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.9 × 3.7 × 3.2 cm
Description

Newly discovered and IMA approved in 2009, kapundaite is yet another phosphate mineral to add to the suite from Tom's Quarry.

It occurs here abundantly throughout the specimen as weird golden yellow flake like masses and acicular crystals together with pink micro-crystals of leucophosphite in a limonitic matrix.

Tom's Quarry is a small phosphate occurrence near the historic copper mining town of Kapunda, Australia's first copper mine. Kapundaite was discovered by Mr. Vince Piesley, a local collector, from whom this specimen came.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kapundaite

Formula: 
NaCaFe4(PO4)4(OH)3·5H2O
Hardness: 
3.0 - 0.0
Streak: 
yellow
Type Locality: 
Tom's quarry (Tom's Phosphate quarry; Clutterbuck Bros; PM 315; Sobey; BHP; ML 4993), Kapunda, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia...

Leucophosphite

Formula: 
KFe3+2(PO4)2(OH)·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.DH.10
Hardness: 
3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Ninghanboun Hills serpentinite, Weelhamby Lake, Perenjori Shire, Western Australia, Australia
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